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" ... 10. You should always send back a wine you don’t like. No, you should only send back a wine that has gone bad, either by being oxidized or corked. Just because you don’t care for the taste of the wine is no reason to ask for it to be taken off your bill. The exception is when a wine steward has really pushed a wine on you that you’re unfamiliar with and you find the wine distasteful. Then, back it goes. ... "
" ... And, let’s not forget the many players who have been caught using corked bats or lumber that was tampered with—1976 A.L. home run champ Graig Nettles, four-time 50-HR slugger Sammy Sosa, the controversial Albert Belle, among others such as Amos Otis, Billy Hatcher, Wilton Guerrero, and Chris Sabo to name a few. ... "
" ... For many years, the wine industry accepted a high fault rate of corked wines that were infected with trichloroanisole (TCA), a compound that imparts musty, off-flavors in wine. It took a wave of New World producers frustrated with the situation that shifted a cork-focused world to explore other alternatives. For decades, European producers accepted the cork taint rate, which during the 1990s ranged between 5% to 10%. The cork industry remained firm that the rate was only 2% to 3%. Even at this conservative rate, it was deemed unacceptable to a growing number of New World producers. ... "
" ... Is front-running bad? Well, it’s easy to see why many Americans are upset about it. We Americans like fair play. Just as a majority of us think it’s wrong for a professional baseball player to gain an unfair advantage by using a corked bat (or performance-enhancing drugs, if you want to open that can of worms), so many of us question the fairness of a relatively small number of Wall Street traders raking in huge profits simply because their strategically-placed, lightning-fast computers give them capabilities that their equally intelligent, hard-working competitors lack. It strikes us as unfair that this privileged elite makes money in a risk-free way while the average retail investor—the proverbial “little guy”—is subject to risk and loss. ... "
" ... “Make it or break it” was the question for the cork industry. Was bad corks and TCA taint – corked wines – going to kill the cork industry? Would “natural” cork fade out and be replaced by plastic corks and screw caps? This was a defining moment for the cork industry, a crisis. What happened? ... "